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He was the man behind the man. Martin Luther King’s chief lieutenant. Why is he only now getting the attention he deserves in “Ruston,” a Netflix docudrama?

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The Baltimore-based writer and artist has penned ‘Uptown One Saturday Night,’ a longform look at the night Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by Izola Ware Curry at a book-signing in Harlem. Curry, a Black woman, was later found not mentally competent to stand trial and would spend the rest of her life institutionalized; the comments she made about her motivations for the attack aligned with her schizophrenia diagnosis.

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He was the man behind the man. Martin Luther King’s chief lieutenant. Why is he only getting attention now?

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